Company Overview
About the job
About Northern Trust
Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.
Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
Role/ Department
This role will be a key member of the EMEA Corporate Risk team based in London reporting to the EMEA Head of Financial Risk. The successful candidate will be experienced in both financial risk management and prudential regulation, working closely with the EMEA Prudential Risk Manager on the EMEA prudential risk programme of work.
This role requires participation in relevant corporate, regional, and local committees to support good governance and effective challenge; and ensuring that relevant legal entity prudential assessments are sufficiently robust.
The successful candidate will be expected to keep up to date with regulatory developments and policy changes issued by both European and UK regulatory authorities.
The Key Responsibilities Of The Role Include
- Supporting the EMEA Prudential Risk Manager with risk input into EMEA Legal Entity ICAAPs, ICARAs and Capital plans. Scope of activities include:
- Production of ICAAP & ICARA risk assessments and ensuring underlying methodologies are fit for purpose.
- Execution of Pillar 2 capital assessments (credit risk and operational risk).
- Execution of Scenario planning (Event Driven Scenario and Reverse Stress Testing).
- Presentation of ICAAP and ICARA results alongside the EMEA Finance team, to relevant Legal Entity Risk Committees and Boards.
- Supporting the Prudential Risk Manager with the quarterly capital modelling of operational risk scenarios for key EMEA entities and ascertain knowledge of the regional operational risk capital model.
- Attending relevant governance committees as a prudential risk consultant for the region.
- Providing risk input into EMEA Legal Entity Recovery plans.
- Monitoring, identifying the impact and responding to prudential regulatory change for EMEA Legal Entities.
- Where required, opportunities to provide support to the EMEA Financial Risk Team on credit, liquidity, and market risk management activities.
Skills/ Experience
The successful candidate will benefit from having:
- Direct experience in the Financial Services industry and a broad understanding of financial markets
- Knowledge of financial and prudential risk management
- Experience in the application of various prudential regimes and regulatory requirements
- Interpretation and implementation of prudential rules with regards to ICAAP \ ICARA
- Experience with stress testing across capital risk management
- Familiarity with Recovery and Resolution Planning
- Excellent communication (verbal and written) skills with the ability to explain complex concepts to stakeholders at varying levels of seniority
- Strong presentation skills
- Proven strong organizational and time management skills
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